Author: James WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Falstaff's Letters
Author: James WhiteFalstaff's letters. Repr., with notices of the author
Author: James WhiteOriginal Letters, Etc., of Sir John Falstaff and His Friends
Author: James WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Falstaff Letters
Author: James WhiteFalstaff
Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Shakespeare through Letters
Author: David M. BergeronPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In Shakespeare through Letters, David M. Bergeron analyzes the letters found within Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies, arguing that the letters offer the principal intertextual element in the plays as text in their own right. Bergeron posits that Shakespeare’s theater itself exists at the intersection of oral and textual culture, which the letters also exhibit as they represent writing, reading, and interpretation in a way that audiences would be familiar with, in contrast with the illustrious culture of kings, queens, and warriors. This book demonstrates that the letters, profound or perfunctory, constitute texts that warrant interpretation even as they remain material stage props, impacting narrative development, revealing character, and enhancing the play’s tone. Scholars of literature, theater, and history will find this book particularly useful.
Shakespeare's Letters
Author: Alan StewartPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.
Author: Charles Lamb
Author: Charles Lamb
Author: Charles Lamb